Include or exclude? A review on the role and suitability of aquatic invertebrate neozoa as indicators in biological assessment with special respect to fresh and brackish European waters

Biological Invasions

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 265-283

  Orendt, Claus ^a   Schmitt, Claudia ^b   van Liefferinge, Chris ^b,c   Wolfram, Georg ^d   de Deckere, Eric ^b  

^a WaterBioAssessment   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c Agency of Nature and Forest   (Belgium)

^d DWS Hydro Oekologie   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bio indication; Brackish water; Fresh water; Habitat assessment; Neozoa; Species invasion

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC COMMUNITY; BIOASSAY; BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; BRACKISH WATER; HABITAT QUALITY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIVE SPECIES; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; PROTOZOAN; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 72149090372     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-009-9448-x     Document Type: Review

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